Hi Roger
So long as Im not a hapless monad subjected to an influx of incomplete and
distorted 'percepts' via a supreme monad, I'm more than happy to be a Zombie. I
might be dead but at least I'm not deluded and neither one of us has much of a
claim on having free will. Moreover, being a zombie is just an extrapolation of
what a materialist is bound to according to his critics, something he can argue
against, being a monad on the other hand is a positive theory offered up by
idealists as the actual truth. I mean they really believe that stuff!

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I doubt you will reply but it seems to me that by the id of inds and his
conviction that what is real must be simple and indivisible that monads can not
be minds. Afterall, the mind is clearly divisible. Ask any blind person whether
they can see, or any deaf person whether they can hear. Far from being unified
the mind is a divisible conglomerate of interacting parts and thats apparent
when you just consider qualia. When you consider thinking itself, and the
manner we employ fast and loose heuristics to make judgements rather than
logically think issues through, again it is abundantly clear that the mind is a
pandemonium of competing routines rather than a unified 'one'. This is all
clearly and distinctly apparent subjectively to anyone who cares to look.
Identifying minds with monads then contravenes the identity of indiscernibles
because whilst we can say the mind is divisible a monad by definition is not.
all the best
From: rclo...@verizon.net
To: rclo...@verizon.net
Subject: How to tell whether you are a zombie or have a materialist mind
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 21:26:44 -0400
How to tell whether you are a zombie or have a materialist
mind
If you can have subjective experiences, then you can
neither
be a zombie nor have a materialist mind.
Most of us should be relieved to know that.
Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.)
[1/1/2000]
See my Leibniz site at
http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough
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